Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
In summer 2013 Triple Canopy invited writers, artists, scientists, activists, economists and technologists to bet on the future: which future do you want to see realized? How precisely can you describe it? What demands might this future make on the present? The answers were presented as Speculations (-The future is ______-), 50 days of lectures and discussions at MoMA PS1, Triple Canopy's contribution to the exhibition EXPO 1: New York. This book, a lexicon of the central terms of Speculations, conveys the relationship between ideation and action and suggests viable approaches to interpreting and changing the world. Triple Canopy considers economic interventions (-guaranteed basic income-), political abstractions (-autonomy, - -prometheanism-), figments of the imagination (-planetary colonization-), modes of expression (-science fiction-) and useful neologisms (-hedge-fund utilitarians-).